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Drinking water and food were found in the landing gear compartment after the plane landed.
Image: Steve Parsons/PA Images
Drinking water and food were found in the landing gear compartment after the plane landed.
Image: Steve Parsons/PA Images
POLICE IN LONDON believe that a man found dead in a garden in Clapham fell from the landing gear compartment of an airplane on a flight from Kenya to Heathrow.
Metropolitan Police says officers and a paramedic crew were called to an address in Offerton Road before 4pm yesterday when the body was found in a garden.
The body was determined to be that of a man but his age is unknown.
Police are working to establish the man’s identity but say they believe he was a stowaway and had fallen from the landing gear of an inbound Kenya Airways flight to Heathrow Airport.
A bag, water and some food were discovered in the landing gear compartment once it landed at the airport.
A post-mortem will be carried out and enquiries will establish the full details of the incident but police have said they are not treating the death as suspicious.
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Officers from the Met’s South Central Command Unit and the Aviation Policing Command will be liaising with the airline and international authorities as part of investigations.
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